Not exact matches
Using Census and other educational data, Frankenberg found that just a few years later, starting in 1959, residents in predominantly white communities began to leave the county's school system, despite Jefferson County being under a
desegregation order.
They asked the court to dissolve the
desegregation order and to hold the
use of magnet school racial guidelines unconstitutional.
In September 2014, the DOJ
used a 1975 federal
desegregation order, Brumfield v. Dodd, 405 F. Supp.
The irony was lost on DOJ that they were
using a
desegregation order in an attempt to keep black students in mostly black schools and prevent them from attending other schools that may not enroll mostly black students.
Yet after years of progress toward school
desegregation, largely achieved through busing and other court -
ordered remedies, the combination of white flight from urban public school districts and a series of Supreme Court decisions limiting the
use of
desegregation strategies have resulted in a widespread pattern of resegregation.
The court
ordered the District to prepare a
desegregation plan for immediate
use» (Justia U.S. Supreme Court).
Citing President Eisenhower's 1957
use of the 101st Airborne to enforce school
desegregation in Little Rock, in furtherance of a federal judge's
order, Breyer suggested that courts
use such great moments in law to help teach the importance of judicial independence.